Place Names

With names alone, we connect places in our minds -

York in England, New York (formerly New Amsterdam) in the US, New New York (I think) in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles;

New England and Nova Scotia;

Lancaster City District includes the seaside town of Morecambe - while based in Lancaster but spending three nights each week in Liverpool, I found myself walking past a Lancaster Street and a Morecambe Street;

in Three Hearts And Three Lions, Hugi tells Holger:

"'Avalon lies far, far in the western ocean, a part of the world wha' we've nobbut auld wives' tales aboot here.'" (CHAPTER EIGHT, p. 51)

Poul Anderson's readers have become more familiar with Avalon as a biracial extrasolar colonized planet in his Technic History. The planet is named from the legend so that the entire story of Arthur etc is implicit even though never articulated.